wild lupine

1. 1.

   stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers

   Synonymssundial lupineIndian beetold-maid's bonnetLupinus perennis

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofLupinus

Questions about wild lupine

What does wild lupine mean?

wild lupine means "stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers".

What is another word for wild lupine?

Close synonyms include sundial lupine, Indian beet, old-maid's bonnet, Lupinus perennis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wild lupine a common word?

wild lupine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.